Grant Task 1a: Incorporating data sets linked to protocols

[jonc125]

Virtual experiment protocol descriptions within the Web Lab system correspond exactly to wet lab experimental protocols, incorporating all post-processing steps (e.g. sampling, filtering, and transformation) so that the outputs of our virtual experiments correspond to experimental datasets. This task will enable users to upload datasets and link each one with the corresponding protocol in the Web Lab. Users will also be able to reference official versions of data deposited in Dryad or similar repositories. Each Web Lab protocol may have many linked data sets (since the experiment may be run multiple times in a wet lab). Annotations, stating e.g. species, cell type, temperature and other experimental conditions, will aid users in automatically showing appropriate comparisons. For example a model of a canine ventricular cell run under a particular protocol will be compared against canine ventricular data for that protocol. One particularly important and prevalent source of experimental data is patch clamp software, and so we will also write an importer that can read both data and protocol descriptions from patch clamp controllers.

[jonc125]

This primarily relates to the front-end redevelopment in https://github.com/ModellingWebLab/WebLab